Not the roses!   The Japanese Beetle: A species of the scarab beetle, Eater of over 300 types of plants including roses.    There are a million and one ways to try to deter or get rid of these pesky bugs, but […]

Summer is in gear and that means ticks are here!   Ticks are frightening arachnids that live in all fifty states and enjoy hearty meals of blood.  My blood, your blood, the goat’s blood, all blood.  It’s great that medicines have been […]

Cattle need shade on warm through hot days.  With most of our cattle being half Highland, they especially need the comfort of shade.  Highland cattle, with their longer than normal coats, get warm very easily.  That means that, if we want them […]

“Mommy, help!  The lights went out!” What do you do when this happens?  Grab a flashlight. Wait, where’s the flashlight? “MOMMY!” Living in a rural area where strong storms are the norm for spring and early summer, the power goes out often.  […]

Those two pictures were taken from my kitchen window.  How cool is that?! Our backyard is the low point of our property, meaning that it will remain too wet to mow for months.  Especially, after a spring as wet as this year’s. […]

Meet Coronet Our weekend foster friend   Helping with local humane societies has always been important to me.  Whether it is donating to them, volunteering, or helping out in other ways like fostering.  While adopting a dog was an original goal, we […]

This was such an easy way to make use out of a broken water tank and get my daughter excited about gardening.  The 100 gallon tank was a little taller than our five-year-old could manage, so we sawed off the bottom to […]

 Like two peas in a pod   Meet Rosemary Chicken, aptly named because I first caught her laying eggs between two rosemary plants, and Kitty, aptly named because he’s a kitty. Rosemary Chicken likes to jump the chicken’s netting and come to […]

We finally have a day that isn’t pouring or storming!  Time to trim some goat hooves. When I started researching how to trim goat hooves a few years back, the websites I found recommended trimming goats’ hooves anywhere from every four weeks […]

Spring is gorgeous.  The plants are waking up, everything is turning green.  The final hump of winter is gone and we can move on from those last, cold days that felt like they were dragging. With that, though, comes spring storms and, […]